Regardless of whether you're a fan of Bring Me The Horizon or not, Lee Malia's Les Paul Custom was an absolute blinder of a signature model - and now he's got another Epiphone to his name, the Explorer Custom Artisan.
Boasting Malia's fave Walnut finish on the classic Explorer outline, the Custom Artisan packs Gibson USA P-94 single coil and 84T-LM humbucker pickups, along with vintage-style Artisan inlays.
In between the two pickups, beneath the pickguard, is a Dummy Coil that cancels 'hum' when in single-coil mode, while the bridge volume control can be used to split the humbucker's coils.
Elsewhere, the guitar's packing a maple-topped mahogany body with 1959 rounded C profile mahogany neck, plus a torrefied composite fingerboard - the latter of which is likely Epi's response to the recently introduced CITES regulations.
Finally, the gold hardware comprises 14:1 ratio die-cast machine heads with 'tulip' buttons, Epiphone straplocks, as well as a LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece.
There's no word on RRP yet, but based on Malia's last signature model, we'd expect around £600-£700, complete with custom gigbag and Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed by the man himself.
Head over to Epiphone for more info.
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